Fiona Candlin Micromuseology. An Analysis of Small Independent Museums Bloomsbury, 2015 Publisher Website How would our understanding of museums change if we used the Vintage Wireless Museum or the Museum of Witchcraft as examples – rather than the British Museum or the Louvre? Although there are thousands of small, independent, single-subject museums in the UK, […]Continue Reading

Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and Continue Reading

At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect Continue Reading

The Never-ending Feast. The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting by Kaori O’Connor Bloomsbury, 2015 Publisher’s website Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore […]Continue Reading

Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller. Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo Monica Janowski Niaspress, 2015 •Visually powerful study of Borneo with many photographs and eleven paintings. •Breaks new ground by linking an oral story to the way of life of those who tell it. This innovative and visually engaging study presents a legend from […]Continue Reading

Art Practice as Research. Inquiry in Visual Arts by Graeme Sullivan – Pennsylvania State University, USA 2010, Sage Publications https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/art-practice-as-research/book233902 Art Practice as Research, Second Edition continues to present a compelling argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research. The Continue Reading

The Feeling of Being There. A Filmmaker’s Memoir Richard Leacock Book + DVD 2015, Semiosis.fr The Feeling of Being There” is a riveting autobiographical epic spanning almost the entire history of cinema as seen through the eyes of one of its leading players. From “Canary Bananas”, his first movie in 1935, to a musical production […]Continue Reading

Omens and Effect. Divergent Perspectives on Emerillon Time, Space and Existence Perle Møhl 2015, Semiosis.fr When scientists present their versions of the world – in writing, maps, inventories, figures, images, etc. – they pose their imprint upon it. Like omens, their representations not only reflect the world, they do things, they have effect. -•- Perle […]Continue Reading

This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined.
Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social Continue Reading

Censorship is alive and well in the art world. Artistic expression is as vulnerable in democracies as it is in authoritarian regimes when it comes to sex, religion and the limits of tolerance. From international shows in the Gulf and the Far East to leading museums and galleries in the US and London, contemporary artists fall foul of local laws and sensibilities. Index on Continue Reading